If you’re seriously reformatting the RAID array of your drives regularly, I have no words. It’s a fast, rather painless process that you should probably only really ever have the need to do one time, if ever.
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You can choose to lay out the 2Big in either RAID 0 or RAID 1 via the included free LaCie Disc Manager software. If you do have Thunderbolt 3, then this thing is pretty sweet. Otherwise you’re going to be using a device that's considerably hampered versus its potential.
At this point, I’m ready to say that if you are considering this device, only get it if your computer supports Thunderbolt 3. Transfer speeds of USB-3 front-facing reader, through USB-CĪgain, USB-C was painfully slower than Thunderbolt 3. In order to test its speed, I plugged a USB 3.0 CFast card reader into it with a CFast 2.0 card installed, and this is the result: In case you were curious, if you plug in a wired mouse into that port while the 2Big Dock is plugged into your laptop, it does work, which is kind of handy. The USB 3.0 Type-A port on the front is rather curious, and likely was included to allow for quick Thumb Drive access. I suppose it is nice for anyone who hasn’t upgraded their camera hardware in the last 5-7 years and still needs support for their card readers though.
I actually question why LaCie opted to put CF support into this device, as it’s a very outdated card format that isn’t being released in many new cameras and is in the process of pretty much being put out to pasture. This is probably ok, since CF as a platform isn’t fast and doesn’t really require much in terms of hardware support. I did not test the CF speeds because I actually don’t own any CF cards anymore. It seems that if you choose to use USB-C, you are for some reason only getting UHS-I speeds instead of what is possible with the fully-capable UHS-II reader. SD card reader transfer speeds over USB-C